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n. 1 (&lit haunted house English) 2 (context US English) A Halloween amusement attraction in which a building or series of rooms is decorated to frighten the people who pass through the attraction.
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A haunted house is a house or other building often perceived as being inhabited by disembodied spirits of the deceased who may have been former residents or were familiar with the property. Parapsychologists attribute haunting to the spirits of the dead and the effect of violent or tragic events in the building's past such as murder, accidental death, or suicide. More scientific explanations for the perception that a house is haunted include misinterpreting noises naturally present in structures, waking dreams, suggestibility, and the effect of toxic substances in environments that can cause hallucinations.
In a 2005, Gallup poll, 37 percent of Americans, 28 percent of Canadians, and 40 percent of Britons expressed the belief that houses could be "haunted".
Haunted House is an Atari 2600 video game, first released in 1982, in which the player (represented by a pair of eyes) must navigate the haunted mansion of the late Zachary Graves to recover the three pieces of an urn. The game has been identified as one of the earliest examples of the survival horror genre by a GameSpy article.
Haunted House is a pinball game released in 1982 by Gottlieb.
A haunted house is a building purported to be the site of paranormal activity.
Haunted house may also refer to:
- Haunted attraction (simulated), a venue that simulates the experience of paranormal activity for thrills or amusement
Haunted House is an arcade game released in 1972 by Midway Manufacturing Company.
is a comedy horror manga written and illustrated by Mitsukazu Mihara. Known for her short stories and characters dressed in the Gothic Lolita fashion, Mihara continued her use of death-themed material in Haunted House, a volume of one-shot chapters focusing on the teenage protagonist's attempts to find and keep a girlfriend despite his gothic family. Shodensha published Haunted House in Japan on October 8, 2002.
Tokyopop licensed it for an English-language release in North America, along with four of her other works, and released it on October 10, 2006. English-language critics were divided on whether it was enjoyable or repetitive, with several comparing it to the Addams Family.
Haunted House (also known as Haunted House 4D) is a 2004 4D computer animated short film that is shown in 4D cinemas. The short is a light-fright, non-violent adventure film.
Haunted House is the third EP by the Australian electronic music duo Knife Party, released on 5 May 2013 by Earstorm Records and Big Beat Records. It was announced through their official Twitter page on 8 August 2012.
"Haunted House" is the fourth episode of the horror black comedy series Scream Queens. It was first aired on October 6, 2015 on Fox. The episode was directed by Bradley Buecker and was written by Brad Falchuk. In this episode, as Halloween approaches, Zayday ( Keke Palmer) makes a stunning announcement and in response, Chanel ( Emma Roberts) concocts a devious plan. Pete ( Diego Boneta) and Grace ( Skyler Samuels) visit a mysterious woman connected to Kappa's past. And as Hester ( Lea Michele) starts to grow closer to Chad ( Glen Powell), Dean Munsch ( Jamie Lee Curtis) struggles to keep Wallace University open after the whole murder spree by the Red Devil.
The episode was watched by 2.97 million viewers and received mixed reviews from critics.
Usage examples of "haunted house".
He has never heard of a so-called haunted house in French Landing.
The door, creaking like a door in a movie haunted house, closed a little more.
They must have been captured in the haunted house, and then forced to join.
But Granddaddy Jaybird read the Sunday comics to me, and he told me stories about the haunted house in the small hamlet of his birth.
How can I scramble to the gate and find a taxi when everyone knows I should be walking out to ride Haunted House?
This figure, unlike the others, was clad in white, and had undoubtedly boarded the wagon as it passed the haunted house.
But though the dreaded Martenses were gone, the fear of the haunted house continued.
It was a promise he'd kept, but here he was, in another haunted house, and there was the haunter, right over there—.